Some scholars have been arguing that the architecture of the internet, its embrace of openness as a design principle, might revolutionize science if we could apply the same principles there — if we could break down the legal and technical barriers that prevent the efficient networking of state funded research and data. Imagine a scientific research process that worked as efficiently as the web does for buying shoes. Then imagine what economic growth a faster, leaner, and more open scientific research environment might generate.

There are so many possibilities that we haven’t even seen yet. Think about how much faster scientific discovery could happen if everyone could share their research. Of course, then we would have to rely on simple humans to actually SHARE.